Looking: Jude 1:21

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This leads to a further exercise brought before us in the word “looking.” Keeping ourselves in the love of God, will lead to “looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life” (vs. 21). Mercy upon mercy meets our need every step of our pilgrim way, but the crowning mercy will take us right out of the scene of need to meet the Lord in the air and enter into the fullness of life in life’s eternal home. On earth we may have caught a glimpse of its glory, enjoyed a taste of its sweetness, in heaven we enter upon its fullness.
Building, praying, keeping, and looking express the mutually dependent exercises by which the soul is kept in the midst of the prevailing corruptions of Christendom. Such exercises are, however, largely individual, but this does not signify that we are to think only of ourselves in forgetfulness of others. Jude having led us into the fullness of eternal life, takes one look back into the welter of evil, and in the midst of it, and associated with it, he sees many of the people of God. “Have you taken heed to yourself?”